[Because of birth control], child slavery, prostitution, feeble
mindedness, physical deterioration, hunger, oppression and war will
disappear from the earth. There will come a Plato who will be
understood, a Socrates who will drink no hemlock, and a Jesus who will
not die upon the cross. These and the race that is to be in America
await upon a motherhood that is to be sacred because it is free.

Margaret Sanger, Woman and the New Race.[1]

Anti-Life Philosophy.

Anti-choice fanatics are smearing the memory of Planned Parenthood's
saintly founder, Margaret Sanger, with unfounded lies and distortions.
She was a noble health professional who simply wanted to improve the lot
of poor women by providing basic information on birth control. This
allowed them to finally end the plague of unwanted children, so that
they could turn their attention towards bettering the lot of themselves
and their families.

As the former President of Planned Parenthood, Faye Wattleton, so
insightfully said; "No one can really interpret what Sanger meant
because she's dead."[2]

Introduction.

Margaret Sanger was born an innocent baby in 1879 and died a bisexual
Demerol and alcohol addict who spawned the most monstrous organization
ever conceived the International Planned Parenthood Federation (IPPF).

Sanger was a proponent of forced eugenics, free love, and birth
control and abortion. More than any other entities, Margaret Sanger and
her organization were responsible for the so-called 'sexual revolution'
which has destroyed millions of families, debased countless women, and
paved the way for tens of millions of people to wallow in the pit of
sexual addiction which, worst of all, leads in most cases to a total
loss of conscience.

Physically, Mentally, and
Emotionally Handicapped Beware!

Introduction.

The fact that Margaret Sanger was this country's foremost proponent
and advocate of eugenics is little known, and Planned Parenthood would
dearly love to keep this information secret. Witness PP's comically
desperate efforts to 'keep the lid on' when Pat Robertson publicized
Sanger's past during the 1988 Presidential primary campaign.

Maggie Sanger Eugenicist. There can be no doubt that Sanger
wholeheartedly supported eugenics, which was the underpinning of the
Nazi genocide program, as shown by her many quotes in Figure 68-1.

We should hire three or four colored ministers, preferably with
social-service backgrounds, and with engaging personalities. The most
successful educational approach to the Negro is through a religious
appeal. We don't want the word to go out that we want to exterminate
the Negro population, and the minister is the man who can straighten
out that idea if it ever occurs to any of their more rebellious
members.

Our failure to segregate morons who are increasing and multiplying
... demonstrates our foolhardy and extravagant sentimentalism ...
[Philanthropists] encourage the healthier and more normal sections of
the world to shoulder the burden of unthinking and indiscriminate
fecundity of others; which brings with it, as I think the reader must
agree, a dead weight of human waste. Instead of decreasing and aiming
to eliminate the stocks that are most detrimental to the future of the
race and the world, it tends to render them to a menacing degree
dominant ... We are paying for, and even submitting to, the dictates
of an ever-increasing, unceasingly spawning class of human beings who
never should have been born at all.

Margaret Sanger. The Pivot of
Civilization, 1922. Chapter on "The Cruelty of Charity,"
pages 116, 122, and 189. Swarthmore College Library edition.

Today eugenics is suggested by the most diverse minds as the most
adequate and thorough avenue to the solution of racial, political and
social problems.

I think you must agree ... that the campaign for birth control is
not merely of eugenic value, but is practically identical with the
final aims of eugenics ... Birth control propaganda is thus the
entering wedge for the eugenic educator.

As an advocate of birth control I wish ... to point out that the
unbalance between the birth rate of the 'unfit' and the 'fit,'
admittedly the greatest present menace to civilization, can never be
rectified by the inauguration of a cradle competition between these
two classes. In this matter, the example of the inferior classes, the
fertility of the feeble-minded, the mentally defective, the
poverty-stricken classes, should not be held up for emulation.

On the contrary, the most urgent problem today is how to limit and
discourage the over-fertility of the mentally and physically
defective.

Margaret Sanger. "The Eugenic Value of
Birth Control Propaganda." Birth Control Review, October
1921, page 5.

Give dysgenic groups [people with 'bad genes'] in our population
their choice of segregation or [compulsory] sterilization.

Margaret Sanger, April 1932 Birth Control
Review.

The third group [of society] are those irresponsible and reckless
ones having little regard for the consequences of their acts, or whose
religious scruples prevent their exercising control over their
numbers. Many of this group are diseased, feeble-minded, and are of
the pauper element dependent upon the normal and fit members of
society for their support. There is no doubt in the minds of all
thinking people that the procreation of this group should be stopped.

Margaret Sanger. Speech quoted in Birth
Control: What It Is, How It Works, What It Will Do. The Proceedings of
the First American Birth Control Conference. Held at the Hotel
Plaza, New York City, November 11-12, 1921. Published by the Birth
Control Review, Gothic Press, pages 172 and 174.

In passing, we should here recognize the difficulties presented by
the idea of 'fit' and 'unfit.' Who is to decide this question? The
grosser, the more obvious, the undeniably feeble-minded should,
indeed, not only be discouraged but prevented from propagating their
kind. But among the writings of the representative Eugenists [sic],
one cannot ignore the distinct middle-class bias that prevails.

There is only one reply to a request for a higher birthrate among
the intelligent, and that is to ask the government to first take the
burden of the insane and feeble-minded from your back. [Mandatory]
sterilization for these is the answer.

Eugenic sterilization is an urgent need ... We must prevent
Multiplication of this bad stock.

Margaret Sanger, [...] Birth Control
Review.

[Our objective is] unlimited sexual
gratification without the burden of unwanted children ... [Women must
have the right] to live ... to love ... to be lazy ... to be an
unmarried mother ... to create ... to destroy ... The marriage bed is
the most degenerative influence in the social order ... The most
merciful thing that a family does to one of its infant members is to
kill it.

Margaret Sanger (editor). The Woman Rebel, Volume I, Number 1.
Reprinted in Woman and the New Race. New York: Brentanos
Publishers, 1922.

Her philosophy was entirely in line with the fact that many of her
influential friends were members of the International Eugenics Society,
of which she was a leading member. Some of the best-known members of
this worldwide octopuslike organization are listed below.

LEADING MEMBERS OF THE INTERNATIONAL EUGENICS SOCIETY

 Margaret Sanger, founder of Planned Parenthood;

 The Rev. Dr. D.S. Bailey, participant in the Anglican Lambeth
Conference of 1930 that first approved of contraception;

 Sir Charles Darwin and Leonard Darwin, the grandson and son of
evolutionist Charles Darwin;

 C.V. Drysdale, lawyer and Secretary of the Malthusian League;

 Havelock Ellis, Sanger's lover;

 Francis Galton, founder of the American eugenics movement and
author of the 1869 work Hereditary Genius;

 Mrs. Vera Houghton, First General Secretary of International
Planned Parenthood Federation and Chief Executive of the Abortion Law
Reform Association; married to Lord Houghton, head of the British
Labour Party in the 1970s;

 Julian S. Huxley, Secretary General of the United Nations
Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO);

 Lord John Maynard Keynes, famous economist, editor of The
Economic Journal for 34 years, and governor of the International
Bank for Reconstruction and Development (his wife, Lady Keynes, was
also a member of the Eugenics Society);

 Marie Stopes, American birth control pioneer and founder of the
Society for Constructive Birth Control and Racial Progress.

Reference: Katherine S. O'Keefe.
"Crypto-Eugenics: The Hidden Agenda of Planned Parenthood."
1991, 52 pages. Order from St. George Financial Research, Post Office
Box 171, Asbury, New Jersey 18802-0171. Appendix B lists the names of
more than 500 members of the Eugenics Society from 1907 to the present.

Sanger traveled all over the world in pursuit of the promotion of
eugenics, birth control, and population control. On one occasion, she
even met with Mahatma Gandhi in an attempt to get him to endorse birth
control for the purpose of controlling his country's population. His
words to Sanger was typically gentle, but in reality represented a
stinging rebuke to her anti-life cause;

In the light of what I have said above, birth control by
contraceptives and the like is a profound error. I write thus with a
full sense of my responsibility. I have great regard for Mrs. Margaret
Sanger and her followers. She impressed me much by her great zeal for
her cause. I know that she has great sympathy for the women who suffer
because they have to bear the burden of a lifetime of carrying and
rearing unwanted children. I know also that this method of birth
control has the support of many Protestant divines, scientists,
learned men, and doctors, many of whom I have the honour of knowing
personally and for whom I entertain high regard. But should I be false
to my God who is Truth and nothing but the Truth, if I concealed my
belief from the reader or these great advocates of the method. Indeed,
if I hid my belief, I should never discover my error, if my present
belief is one.[3]

Maggie Sanger Racist.

Sanger was without question a racist of the first rank, and it is
incomprehensible to most pro-life activists that she continues to be
honored in this country. School films routinely portray her as a
'pioneer for women's rights.' And the United States Postal Service
issued a stamp in honor of her 100th birthday in 1979.

Human beings were nothing more than farm animals to Margaret Sanger,
and this view is reflected in the terms she applied to those that did
not measure up to her high standards of perfection. For example, she
habitually referred to blacks and Jews as "bad stock." Her
label for her dreamed-of Master Race was a "race of
thoroughbreds," as described in the November 1921 Birth Control
Review.

In the April 1933 issue of the same periodical, Sanger said that
"[Slavs, Latin, and Hebrew immigrants are] human weeds ... a
deadweight of human waste ... [Blacks, soldiers, and Jews are a] menace
to the race. ... Eugenic sterilization is an urgent need ... We must
prevent multiplication of this bad stock."

Sanger advocated a program that would;

... hire three or four colored ministers, preferably with
social-service backgrounds, and with engaging personalities. The most
successful educational approach to the Negro is through a religious
appeal. We don't want the word to go out that we want to exterminate
the Negro population, and the minister is the man who can straighten
out that idea if it ever occurs to any of their more rebellious
members.[4]

We must conclude from the above statements that Planned Parenthood
possesses at least a rudimentary if crude sense of humor. The recipient
of the 1963 Margaret Sanger Award (for outstanding dedication to PP's
principles) was none other than Martin Luther King the best-known Black
minister of his day!

Faye Wattleton, former president of the Planned Parenthood Federation
of America (and who, amusingly, is herself Black), at PPFA's annual
luncheon in St. Louis, on May 2, 1979, stated that "I believe
Margaret Sanger would have been proud of us today if she had seen the
directions that we have most recently in this organization
taken."[5]

Even Marxist theorists, though so very blind in other areas,
recognize the obviously racist nature of Planned Parenthood and the
other population controllers. Alexander Cockburn wrote that "The
not-so-concealed theme of some major figures in NARAL and NOW was that
abortion should be legal because the most prolific breeders were welfare
mothers from the dangerous classes ... the leader of NARAL in New York
lobbied against the provisions to protect poor minority women from
involuntary sterilization, and so did Planned Parenthood."[6]

Speaking of genetics and eugenics, Sanger apparently managed to pass
on her poisoned bloodline to her grandson, Alexander C. Sanger, who
became President and Chief Executive Officer of Planned Parenthood of
New York City in January of 1991. This organization has a budget of $18
million a year and 250 workers. The new menace boasted that

I intend to be out on the front lines of our issues. That is why
I'm here ... Right now, we have three clinics in this [New York] city
and I want ten more. We currently have a small storefront office in
central Harlem, and it is my first priority to see if we can transform
that into a clinic ... With all her success, my grandmother left some
unfinished business, and I intend to finish it.[7]

Seeing how his grandmother desired to "exterminate the Black
race," a clinic in Harlem would be a great way to "finish
it."

Margaret Sanger Anti-Family and Anti-Child.

We are not going to be an organization promoting celibacy or
chastity.

Faye Wattleton.[8]

Although it comically refers to itself as "The largest
pro-family organization in America," Planned Parenthood has done
more than any other entity to tear at the foundations of family life.

PP supports sexual perversions of every type, abortion for any
reason, euthanasia, permissive sex education, and school-based clinics,
faithfully adhering to the tradition established by its dishonorable
founder.

Margaret Sanger embraced literally any influence that could
reasonably be expected to destroy family life and the relationships
between spouses and parents and children. She claimed that "[Our
objective is] unlimited sexual gratification without the burden of
unwanted children." Her credo of women's rights was "to live
... to love ... to be lazy ... to be an unmarried mother ... to create
... to destroy." She also claimed that "The marriage bed is
the most degenerative influence in the social order," and that
"The most merciful thing that a family does to one of its infant
members is to kill it."[1]

Sanger's anti-life and anti-family philosophy has been effectively
passed down to almost all latter-day Planned Parenthood workers. One
infallible method for predicting where Planned Parenthood or any of its
workers will stand on any particular issue is to ask the question: Will
the action under consideration weaken or strengthen the family? If the
answer is that it will weaken the family, then PP will invariably
support it.

As just one of many examples, a law that forbids husbands from
protecting their preborn children in any way might be reasonably
expected to weaken the relationship between spouses. Louise Tyrer,
vice-president of medical affairs at Planned Parenthood, therefore
opposes any rights for the fathers of preborn children; "But it
doesn't matter how much men scream and holler that they are being left
out [of the abortion decision]. There are some things that they are
never going to be able to experience fully. I say, 'tough
luck.'"[9]

Sanitizing History.

PP has its hands full sanitizing Sanger's rotten memory, and this
sometimes leads to humorous or even ludicrous situations involving
massive doses of damage control.

In early 1989, radio talk show host Jan Mickelson of Station WHO in
Iowa conducted a mock interview of 'Sanger,' who was represented by a
woman friend. The ersatz 'Sanger' quoted directly out of 'her' written
works, and listeners heard the racist condemn Catholics, blacks, Jews,
Slavs and others she considered "biologically unfit."

MIckelson never informed his audience that Sanger had died in 1966.

Planned Parenthood, which hates to see its corrupt and racist root
system exposed, was understandably enraged. Its local director, Jill
June, fumed that the show was a "terrible, cruel hoax." She
went on to say that "We in Planned Parenthood are huge supporters
of freedom of the press and free speech, but this represents a total
breakdown in ethics in broadcast journalism."

This last statement brought gales of laughter from pro-life activists
all over the nation, in light of the established fact that Planned
Parenthood does its best to crush legal picketing, vocal dissent to its
policies, and even informed consent for the abortion procedure itself.

Fortunately, Mickelson was strongly defended by his station manager,
Steve Shannon.

It is interesting that Planned Parenthood has so much power that it
can even censor books and what people can see regarding its history in
public libraries. For example, the Oregon State Library lets its copy of
Sanger's Woman and the New Race go with the utmost reluctance. A
statement on the inside front cover warns;

This is a restricted book not usually put on the open shelves, but
lent only to mature readers. It does not mean that the book is a bad
book, but that it might be offensive to some and possibly injurious to
others. It is lent to patrons of the State Library with the
understanding that it will not be handed to others nor generally
circulated.

According to Dr. Vincent Rue, post-abortion syndrome expert and
co-director of the Institute for Abortion Recovery and Research, based
in Portsmouth, New Hampshire, Planned Parenthood successfully pressured
the publishers Harper & Row into canceling Dr. Anne Speckhard's book
Psycho-Social Stress Following Abortion.[10]

The book was finally published by Sheed and Ward.

References: Margaret Sanger.

[1] All quotes are from Margaret Sanger. Woman and the New Race.
Brentanos, 1922, page 161.

[2] Faye Wattleton, former president of Planned Parenthood. Quoted in
the New York City Tribune, February 23, 1988, page 1. Also quoted
in Judie Brown. "The Wattleton-Sanger Tradition: Deception."
May 1988, pages 18 and 19.

[3] Mahatma Gandhi, quoted in Father A.S. Antonisamy. Wisdom for
All Times: Mahatma Gandhi and Pope Paul VI on Birth Regulation.
Family Life Service Centre, Archbishop's House, Pondicherry 605001
India. June 1978. Quotes are taken from D.G. Tendulkar (Editor). The
Collected Works of Mahatma Gandhi, Volumes 2 and 4. Published by the
Ministry of Information and Broadcasting, Government of India.

[4] Sanger's October 19, 1939 letter to Clarence Gamble, discussed in
Linda Gordon's Woman's Body, Woman's Right: A Social History of Birth
Control in America. New York: Grossman Publishers, 1976.

[5] Faye Wattleton, president of the Planned Parenthood Federation of
America (PPFA), at PPFA's annual luncheon in St. Louis, on May 2, 1979.

[8] Faye Wattleton, former president of Planned Parenthood. Quoted in
the Los Angeles Times, October 17, 1986, Part V, page 1. Also
quoted in Judie Brown. "The Wattleton-Sanger Tradition:
Deception." May 1988, pages 18 and 19.

[9] Louise Tyrer of Planned Parenthood, quoted in John Leo.
"Sharing the Pain of Abortion." Time Magazine,
September 26, 1983, page 78. For more information on men's role in
abortion, see the book by Arthur Shostak, Gary McLouth and Lynn Seng. Men
and Abortion: Lessons, Losses, and Love. Praeger Publishers, 1984.

[10] As described in Human Life of Washington State. Human Life
News, January/February 1990, page 1. The book in question is Anne
Speckhard's Psycho-Social Stress Following Abortion. Kansas City,
Missouri: Sheed and Ward, 1987. 134 pages. Reviewed by Gary Crum, Ph.D.,
on page 44 of the October 1988 issue of ALL About Issues. This
book analyzes the results of 30 in-depth interviews of women who have
had abortions and compiles the results to arrive at a summary of all of
the symptoms of post-abortion syndrome.

Further Reading: Margaret Sanger.

Elasah Drogin. Margaret Sanger: Father of Modern Society. New Hope, Kentucky: Catholics United for Life. 1979, 112 pages.
Reviewed by John Cavanaugh-O'Keefe on page 12 of the August 18, 1980 National
Right to Life News.

Margaret Sanger. Woman and the New Race. Reprinted in 1969 by permission of the Sanger Estate by the Maxwell
Reprint Company, Fairview Park, Elmsford, New York 10523. Any pro-life
activist who wants to become familiar with the real attitudes and
philosophy of the anti-life movement and Neofeminism in general should
read this book. It is an utterly fascinating treatise by one of the
original Neofeminists.